by Ira | Jul 1, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
I spent all day on my manuscript today, going through and approving corrections, and working on sections that needed clarification. I was supposed to finish…but it’s going to take me 2 days. Now I know. I’ll schedule 3 days next time. That’s...
by Ira | Jun 30, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
Two days down…infinity to go. I woke up feeling hard today. Haaarrrrdd. I thought I was hung over from dinner last night (TWO drinks), and I was convinced that today was going to be a loss. I was wrong. I took allergy meds and went on a walk, and I was a new...
by Ira | Jun 29, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
Okay… I kicked ass today. I stayed on schedule for my entire friggin day. Yes! Here’s the key, and it’s seriously all thanks to my wife: I had the entire morning to work free of distractions. It made all the difference. It was a world of difference....
by Ira | Jun 28, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
I’m reminded tonight, after a rather frustrating day, how hard change is. It’s hard to change. Really, really, really hard. It takes constant vigilance…and just like a baseball batting average, it’s going to be mostly failure. At least...
by Ira | Jun 27, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
Coco is gnawing the huck out of a Whimzee right now. Nom nom. I wrote 600 words today. Sigh. Not 1,000…but words. I sat down, and I wrote them. Honesty time: work is hard right now. Don’t know exactly why, except that it’s still the early stages of...
by Ira | Jun 26, 2017 | Challenge, Journal
Having some issues right now with the Kindle app on my iPad and my Paperwhite. Usually, I just read on my paperwhite, but today my paperwhite was getting low on battery, so I did my reading on my iPad. Well, that reading from today is not syncing over back to my...
